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François Michonneau
Professional Appointments
Senior Director of Technology
The Carpentries
Remote
Current - 2020
- I lead the Infrastructure team and directly supervise 6 people
- Recent projects involved the revision of our Privacy Policies and compliance with GDPR/CCPA, leading the development of new features (email automation) in our internal data management system, and a new version of The Carpentries lesson template.
Curriculum Development Lead
The Carpentries
Remote
2020 - 2018
- I was responsible for coordinating the community of lesson maintainers and contributed to overseeing the development of 10+ lessons. I led the the publication (via Zenodo) of 40+ official Carpentries lessons. I maintained and developed new features for The Carpentries lesson template.
- In addition of these responsibilities, I have been managing our technical infrastructure including the migration of all our services to AWS and Docker. I have developed automations, web apps & dashboards (with Shiny), data feeds, and automated reports, to help scale up our operations.
- I collaborated with researchers to write grant proposals that included funding for The Carpentries to help support the development of our curriculum offering, and secured funding to run and develop our technical infrastructure.
Statistician
CEMAGREF (now INRAE)
Montpellier, France
2006 - 2005
- I led the statistical analyses of ecological datasets resulting in two scientific publications.
Education
PhD, Zoology
Department of Biology, University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA
2014 - 2006
- Dissertation: “Species limits and diversity in the sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)” Advisor: Gustav Paulay
M.S., Ecology, Biodiversity, Evolution
University Pierre & Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University)
Paris, France
2005
- Thesis: “Post-settlement mortality in scleractinian corals around Moorea island, French Polynesia” Advisor: Mehdi Adjeroud
Maîtrise, Tropical Biology
La Réunion University
Réunion Island
2004
- Thesis: “Hydroids colonizing artificial reefs in La Possession Bay, La Réunion island” Advisor: Chloé Bourmaud
License, Marine Biology
La Rochelle University
La Rochelle, France
2003
- Thesis: “Herpetofauna of the French Atlantic coast islands” Advisor: Jean-Marc Thirion
Research Positions
Post-doctoral research fellow, Martindale Lab
The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
Marineland, FL, USA
2018 - 2015
- Led research project on plankton biodiversity in Florida.
- Designed statistical method for species assignment based on DNA sequences.
- Synthesized current state of knowledge of US marine invertebrate biodiversity by combining millions of occurrence records from public databases (iDigBio, OBIS, GBIF).
Post-doctoral fellow for iDigBio
Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville, FL, USA
2015 - 2014
- Led development of computing training activities.
- Mentored and reviewed code for R package developed by IT team for the project
Graduate Research Assistant for the iDigBio project
Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville, FL, USA
2014 - 2013
- Assembled NoSQL database of all US natural history collections.
Graduate Research Assistant, Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville, FL, USA
2013 - 2006
- Assisted with curation of specimen and data in the collection.
- DNA barcoding of specimens